Room Conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara
Vedic knowledge coming from Kṛṣṇa, and it is received by Brahmā, and then Nārada receives.
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Vedic knowledge coming from Kṛṣṇa, and it is received by Brahmā, and then Nārada receives.
Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra—it is very easy—at least sixteen rounds, and follow the regulative principle, and pray to Kṛṣṇa to help you.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, māṁ ca viddhi: \"Also understand that I am also in this body.\" There is Supersoul within this body, everyone's body.
But anyone who wants liberation by devotional service, he is not a pure devotee.
\"Death is the cause of fear; therefore we are thinking of God.\" So you stop this cause, we shall not think of God.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for educating people how to think of God constantly.
When there is light, it doesn't require to be enquired, \"Is it light?\" You personally perceive it is light.
We have voluntarily come into this material world for sense enjoyment, and in sense enjoyment we have forgotten our supreme father, God.
Whatever you give, that is carried to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Anumantā means without God's sanction, without Supersoul's sanction, you cannot do anything.
Similarly, this is also like fever, sinful fever, so you cannot act your brain for understanding higher, spiritual matters.
The purpose is ānanda, but in this material world we are experiencing ānanda being checked.
The supreme living force is God, Kṛṣṇa, and we are part and parcel of the living force.
Samit-pāṇiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham: guru means one who has complete knowledge of Vedic version; and not only that, he is a staunch or fixed-up devotee of the Supreme Lord.
I think no religious publisher have seen such big godown in their life, throughout the whole world.
He understands that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead; that is, he acquired knowledge from Kṛṣṇa.
Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Chapter Sixteen, verses 13 through 15. [leads chanting of verses, etc.] \" idam adya mayā labdham imaṁ prāpsye manoratham idam astīdam api mePrabhupāda:Devotees:
Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Chapter Sixteen, text 11 and 12. [leads chanting of verses, etc.] \" cintām aparimeyāṁ ca pralayāntām upāśritāḥ kāmopabhoga-paramāPrabhupāda:Devotees:
But in the material world means for your maintenance you have to work.
The body is coming from life, and the soul is coming from life, the supreme life, Kṛṣṇa.
Give him Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he is saved from birth and death.
Harāv abhaktasya, one who is not a divine nature or devotee of the Lord, he has no qualification.
The same thing: the conditioned soul enters the big city of material world, and he struggles.
Bhagavad-gītā 16.6 Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] \" dvau bhūta-sargau loke ‘smin daiva āsura eva ca daivo vistaraśaḥ proktaPrabhupāda:Devotees:
Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] \" daivī sampad vimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā mā śucaḥ sampadaṁ daivīm abhijāto ‘si pāṇḍava [Bg. 16.5]\" [break] [02:02] “The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the demoniac qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pāṇḍu, for you are born with divine qualities.Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] \" dambho darpo ‘bhimānaś ca krodhaḥ pāruṣyam eva ca ajñānaṁ cābhijātasya pārtha sampadam āsurīm [Bg. 16.4]\" [break] [02:01] “Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance—these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature, O son of Pṛthā.Prabhupāda:Devotees:
That is also stated when Arjuna accept Him that \"You are the Supreme Lord.
Never mind wherever he is born, he can be also transferred to the spiritual world.\" So this our movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is like that.
There is no substance , and people are suffering for want of this knowledge.
Prabhupāda: [chants maṅgalācaraṇa prayers] \" ...mano-‘bhīṣṭaṁ sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ dadāti sva-padāntikam\" [When will Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī Prabhupāda, who has established within this material world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under his lotus feet?] \" vande ‘haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and unto the feet of all Vaiṣṇava…